Il faut la croix et la bannière pour lʹavoir. If you want to have him, you must make a great fuss over him—you must go to meet him with cross and banner, “aller au devant de lui avec un croix et la bannière.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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